She vilifies the fource of attic pleasure, In age fophifticate; infuriate in youth, From him who legiflates to him who delves, The flattering Sorcerefs triumphs in our thought, As wily Treachery prepares, Beneath the perfum'd herb her reptiles and her fnares Than all are-born to die! Though ages roll their complex miferies on Though pallid Obloquy, with ceafelefs hate, Madness can fully Health's translucent rill; Yet fhall the fountain wafh the ftreamlet clear, The iffue proves the folly of the ill! He, who t' elude his Reputation's death, Relies upon a co-essential breath, Which Adulation warms and Envy chills, Is not in act or faculty fupreme; But fome vile worm that grovels in the duft; The MAN to heaven and honour true, He elevates his laurell'd head, Unconscious or of infamy or dread, And, mid the conflicts of the whirlwind, fmiles; Cannot imprefs his foul, He foars above her ire-he baffles her control! Like the vast orb, he cheers the focial way; Though thunders roll about his mighty frame, He journies unappall'd-is ftill the fame, And And fills the miffion of his glorious day! Gabinian vestments and Egyptian urns; They cannot shake the portal of his breast : Virtue, like Spring, is gladden'd 'tween extremes, THE FASHIONABLE REVIEW. No. I. At whofe levee, pride, folly, vice, attend; Before my eye, a frightful form appears, Away the fight! indignant nature cries; Thus fenfe and taste their mutual aid impart, Till Till in Columbia's modern fair we find, All that can please the eye, or please the mind, If this be fashion, then, my country's fair, "CRITON." THE POET's COMPLAINT, A SONNET, addreffed to the SONNET-WRITERS of the prefent day. “O imitatores, fervum pecus !"-Hor. DISTRACTI ISTRACTING thoughts my morning hours employ ; The county's maffy bars ftart up to view, And thoughts of durance vile my peace destroy. SMELLFUNGUS. An EPIGRAM on a WINE-MERCHANT, and very applicable to many of the FRATERNITY in all Nations. THE vileft of compounds while Balderdash vends, And brews his dear poifon for all his good friends; No wonder they never can get him to dine: He's afraid they'd oblige him to-drink his own wine t A SUMMARY STATEMENT of DOMESTIC POLITICS and OCCURRENCES for the laft MONTH. THE HE commencement of this month was marked by a continuation of that forrow, for the lofs of General WASHINGTON, which is so pecularly honourable to the nation; and the general obfervance of the 22d inft. as ordered by Government, for a national day of fafting and prayer, was fignificant of the veneration of the people for the founder of their liberties, and of their lamentation for his death. Both Houfes of Congress have been arduously employed in the great duties of legiflation, the more prominent of which are the following: An examination of the caufes and confequences of an imputed infult, committed on the perfon of Mr. Randolph, jun. one of the Reprefentatives from the State of Virginia, by two officers belonging to the navy and army: the account was ftated by the aggrieved perfon, in a letter to the President, and by him tranfmitted for the confideration of Congrefs. It involved a declaration, That the offence was perpetrated in confequence of words uttered in a debate in the Houfe of Reprefentatives, derogatory to the dignity of the exifting military establishments. This affair was productive of much ferious debate, and the refult was, That a majority of the Houfe did not think fufficient caufe appeared to justify their interpofition, on the ground of a breach. of privilege. A Bill paffed to be enacted to fuf pend the A&t for augmenting the Army of the United States. A Refolution was fubmitted for dividing the North-West Territory into two Governments. The Second Section of the Act, commonly called the Sedition Law, was repealed. The rules of the Houfe were fufpended, and a Bill introduced for giving further time to the bolders of military warrants to locate and regifter the fame. The Mint Bill was paffed. A written meffage was received from the Prefident of the United States, in the words following, to wit, Gentlemen of the House of Reprefentatives, In confequence of your request to me, conveyed in your refolution of the 4th of this month, I directed the Secretary of State to lay before me, copies of the papers intended. Thefe copies, together with his report, I now transmit to the House of Reprefentatives, for the confideration of the members. JOHN ADAMS. United States, The Report from the Secretary of State to the Prefident, contains all the papers relative to the apprehenfion and delivery of Jonathan Robbins, who was ultimately executed at Jamaica, in the Weft Indies, on a charge of murder and piracy. LEGISLATURE of MASSACHUSETTS. THURSDAY, FEB. 13. THE Marine Fire and Marine In furance Bill paffed to be engroffed. The Tax Bill paffed to a third reading the fum to be raifed is 153,989 Dollars and 13 Cents. A Refolve eftablishing the pay of the Members of the Council, Senate and House paffed-the fum is two dollars per day. The Hon. Theodore Sedgwick, Efq. was was elected as Major General of the 9th divifion (Berkshire) of militia, A Bill was re-difcuffed for the augmentation of the Governor's falary, which was negatived: the falary is xed at eight hundred pounds per year. The Eighth Maffachusetts Turnpike Corporation Bill, paffed to be engroffed. The Ninth Maffachusetts Turnpike Corporation' Bill, was read a fecond time, and to-morrow, 3 o'clock, affigned for the third reading. The Weight and Meafure Bill was read a third time, and recommitted for further amendments. A Bill was received from the Senate to encourage the manufacture of leather, boots, half-boots, fhoes, pumps, fandals, flippers and golofhoes, and to prevent fraud therein, which had paffed in that body to be engroffed. The Bill was read twice in the House, and Tuesday next, 12 o'clock, affigned for the third reading, and in the mean time committed. A Committee was appointed to confider whether any measures are neceffary to be adopted relative to the Hofpital lately erected on Martha's Vineyard. A Bill giving a remedy in law against the Executors and Administrators of deceafed debtors, in joint contracts, paffed to be engroffed. A Bill to incorporate the plantation No. 7, on Union River, into a town by the name of Ellfworth, was read twice, and Tuesday next, 11 o'clock, affigned for the third reading, and in the interim committed. FRIDAY, FEB. 14. The Bill in addition to the A&t incorporating Merrimack Bank, was read twice, and this day, 4 o'clock, affigned for the third reading. The Bill in addition to the Act to prevent the fpreading of Contagious Sickness, paffed to be engroffed A Committee was appointed to bring in a Bill in addition to the A&t for preventing common nuifances. A Bill, authorizing towns to make bye-laws for reftraining cattle and horfes from going at large, was read twice, and this day, at 3 o'clock, affigned for the third reading. A Bill was received from the Senate altering the time for holding the Courts of Common Pleas and Seffions. at Portland. The Ninth Maffachusetts Turnpike Corporation Bill, was passed to be engroffed. The Merrimack Bank Act paffed to be engroffed. The Bill authorizing towns to make laws to reftrain cattle and horfes from going at large, was paffed to be engroffed. A Bill in addition to the Law for the inftruction of youth, and for the promotion of good education; was read a firft time. Private bufinefs as ufual. TUESDAY, FEB. 18. The Merrimack Bank bill came down from the Senate, and paffed to be engroffed. A bill to encourage the manufacture of leather boots, half boots, pumps, fandals, flippers and golofhoes; and to prevent frauds therein; paffed to be engroffed. A committee on the fale of Eaftern Lands, was raised. A bill in addition to an Act, intitled, an Act establishing a Supreme Judicial. Court within this Commonwealth, was read a third time, and passed to be engroffed. A bill for establishing a Municipal Town Court, in the town of Boston, paffed to a third reading. A bill for the due regulation of Weights and Measures, paffed to be engroffed. Bills incorporating certain plantations in the district of Maine, into towns by the names of Orland, Ellfworth, and Rumford, have paffed vatious stages. Meffrs. Lowell, Smith, and Ruffell, of Bofton, were appointed a Committee to answer the invitations of the Academy of Arts and Sciences;-the Prefident and Board of Trustees of the Mechanic Affociation; and the Prefident, Profeffors and Tutors of Harvard Univerfity; that the Houfe would attend Solemnities in memory of General WASHINGTON, and to inform them the preffure of public bufinefs prevented their accepting thofe invitations. WEDNESDAY, |